Since early November, Monroe County has paid nearly $100,000 to a web development company linked to impropriety in a local bid-rigging case.

Records obtained by the Democrat and Chronicle show that between November and late April, the county paid $98,425 to Pittsford-based Catalog and Commerce Solutions, a company connected to inflated contracts in the bid-rigging case involving local development corporations, or LDCs.

The company's website says that it offers "comprehensive Web services ranging from custom website design to development of complex enterprise Web applications."

No one at the firm has been accused of a crime. But in court papers, James Nobles, the attorney for Robert Wiesner, identifies Catalog and Commerce President Michael Kelly as a "cooperating witness."

Nobles said he based the statement on allegations made in the LDC-connected indictment and grand jury materials that he has received in his defense of Wiesner.

The two LDCs at the center of the criminal case — Upstate Telecommunications Corp., or UTC, and Monroe Security & Safety Systems, or M3S — are also still contracting with Catalog and Commerce, according to officials with the LDCs.

A lawyer for the LDCs declined to discuss the continued use of Catalog and Commerce. County officials declined to discuss whether there was any issue with doing business with a company connected to wrongdoing in the LDC criminal case.

A May 2013 search warrant of a company linked to the alleged LDC crimes sought "all correspondence with County Chief Information Officer Nelson Rivera, John Maggio, Catalog & Commerce Solutions LLC owner Michael Kelly and Monroe County Water Authority employee Robert Wiesner from January 2004 to the present," according to court papers.

"All these individuals have been indicted with the exception of cooperating witness Kelly," Nobles wrote in court papers.

Officials with the LDCs acknowledged that they still use Catalog and Commerce for their websites, and requested a Freedom of Information request for the amount paid to the firm since November 2013. The Democrat and Chronicle has filed Freedom of Information requests with both. The county released its payments in response to a Freedom of Information Law request.

Michael Townsend, an attorney for the LDCs, declined to comment on the continued use of Catalog and Commerce, or CCS.

In November, County Executive Maggie Brooks directed the LDC boards to sever ties with Navitech Services Corp., a project management firm. Brooks also told the boards to cut ties with Navitech subcontractors that may have been involved in wrongdoing.

The LDCs have ended connections with Navitech, but no others.

County Legislator Paul Haney, D-Rochester, said the fact that the county continues to work with Catalog and Commerce shows that the administration of Brooks, a Republican, refuses to deal seriously with issues raised in the indictment.

"Anybody that was a party to this bid rigging and the submitting of phony invoices, etc., the county should not be doing business with," Haney said.

In November, local businessman Daniel Lynch, Maggio, Rivera and Wiesner were arrested and accused of illegally directing LDC bids to favored vendors. Some of the accused also sought to line their pockets through falsely inflated contracts, prosecutors with the state Attorney General's Office alleged.

The indictment alleged that in December 2006, Lynch — a key figure in the early development of the LDCs — and a person identified only as "Individual 1" decided to "create a contract that would include inflated values for the actual cost of services to be provided" under an LDC contract with Siemens Business Corp., where Lynch previously worked.

The goal of the crime, authorities allege, was to "steal up to $30,000 per year in payments for a five-year contract between Siemens and CCS."

On Dec. 26 "Individual 1" signed the contract, which led to inflated invoices from Catalog and Commerce to Siemens, authorities allege.

The court papers do not detail what connection "Individual 1" had with Catalog and Commerce.

Eleven of the 25 criminal counts in the 2013 indictment involve Catalog and Commerce work. Acting state Supreme Court Justice Robert Noonan last month dismissed some of those charges, deciding the alleged crimes occurred beyond the statute of limitations set by law.

Michael Kelly and his attorney declined to comment for this story.

Until recent years, CCS and Kelly donated thousands of dollars to local Republican coffers and to a campaign to re-elect Brooks. For the past four years, the Monroe County Republican Committee has paid $1,200 annually to Catalog and Commerce to host an internal website.